WASHINGTON — The family of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has charged the foundation building a monument to the civil rights leader on the National Mall about $800,000 for the use of his words and image — an arrangement one leading scholar says King would have found offensive.
"I don’t think any other group of family ancestors has been paid a licensing fee for a memorial in Washington,” said Cambridge University historian David Garrow, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of King.
Intellectual Properties Management said the proceeds it receives go to the King Center in Atlanta.
The Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation hopes to begin building the $120 million memorial this year ."
"I don’t think any other group of family ancestors has been paid a licensing fee for a memorial in Washington,” said Cambridge University historian David Garrow, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of King.
Intellectual Properties Management said the proceeds it receives go to the King Center in Atlanta.
The Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation hopes to begin building the $120 million memorial this year ."
by the associated press
